Liana Sakelliou - Schultz

Liana Sakelliou was born in Athens in 1956, where she studied English Philology at the University of Athens. She continued her postgraduate studies in modern poetry and creative writing at Edinburgh, Essex, and Pennsylvania State University. She is a professor of American literature and creative writing in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Athens, and since March 2010, she has been teaching creative writing at the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation. Her articles, poems, book reviews, and translations have been published in Greek and American journals. Her publications include 15 books. For her academic and writing activities, she has received scholarships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Department of Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, the University of Coimbra, and the British Council. Since 1996, she has been teaching the creative writing seminar at the Department of English Language and Literature and editing the annual magazine "a-formes," which features the writing work of students.